[Milsurplus] ( OT ) Deep Security Breach Cripples N.S.A.

[Hubert Miller]

I don't mean to start a discussion here on this subject that is only somewhat connected under the topic of 'electronic warfare'.
But I found this article quite interesting, and - disturbing. Kind of made me think of the spy scandals at MI6 in the U.K. late 1950s.
-Hue

article at New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/nsa-shadow-brokers.html


"Fifteen months into a wide-ranging investigation by the agency's counterintelligence arm....officials still do not know whether the N.S.A. is the victim of a brilliantly
executed hack, with Russia as the most likely perpetrator, an insider's leak, or both.  Three employees have been arrested since 2015 for taking classified files, but
there is fear that one or more leakers may still be in place. And there is broad agreement that the damage from Shadow Brokers already far exceeds the harm to
American intelligence done by Edward J. Snowden....
"American officials had to explain to close allies - and to business leaders in the United States - how cyberweapons developed at Fort Meade in Maryland came to
be used against them...."
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